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TIL it is likely that solar eclipses, the way we experience them, are likely unique to earth.

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jnDa TIL that the phrase “It’s Greek to me” has analogues in many languages. In Greek, the foreign language in the saying is Turkish or Chinese. In Turkish, it’s French or Arabic. In French and Arabic, it’s Chinese. In Chinese, it’s “ghost script,” “bird sounds,” or “chicken intestines.”
GYVKN TIL The creator of the labradoodle regrets creating the breed.
1EOV TIL until 1975 a French husband had the legal right to kill a cheating wife. Honor killings for adultery were legal until 1991 in Brazil and until 2005 in Haiti.
nv0G TIL that after Kanye West interrupted Tayor Swift, Comedy Central played South Park’s ‘Fishsticks’ episode on repeat for 2 hours.
0wQmN TIL Despite publishing vast quantities of literature only three Mayan books exist today due to the Spanish ordering all Mayan books and libraries to be destroyed for being, "lies of the devil."